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Journalist, Poet, Erzähler, kreierte die Detektivrolle "Pater Brown" (England, 1874 - 1936).

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton wäre heute 150 Jahre, 11 Monate, 14 Tage oder 55.136 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.05.1874 in Kensington/London
Gestorben am 14.06.1936 in Beaconsfield/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• Art is a mirror not because it is the same as the object, but because it is different. A mirror selects much as art selects; it gives the light of flames, but not their heat; the color of flowers, but not their fragrance; the faces of women, but not their voices; the proportions of stockbrokers, but not their solidity.

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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• Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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• Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire, And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire; A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.

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• Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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• By nationalism I mean a general recognition of the right of all nations to be national. I find it more confusing to call this patriotism, because patriotism, when it was rammed down my throat in the old jingo days, always meant that the Brithish empire had a right to do everything and nobody else had a right to do anything.

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• Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information - the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

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• Curiosity is always rebuked as one of the restless weaknesses of humanity, but I am inclined to think that most people are not inquisitive enough. They have not what I call clean curiosity - a mere appetite for the truth. They cannot be interested and disinterested too.

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• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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• Democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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• Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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• England, left to itself, returns naturally to sport and laughter, and a genial individualism known as minding one's own business. It knows and cares very little about politics; that is why it puts up with politicans.

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• Everybody, who is interested only in one thing, is dangerous.

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• Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

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• Fairyland is nothing but the sunny country of common sense.

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• Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my ears, And palms before my feet.

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• For the great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.

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• For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

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• For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

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